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Mingus Big Band - Que Viva Mingus! (1997)

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Mingus Big Band - Que Viva Mingus! (1997)

Mingus Big Band - Que Viva Mingus! (1997)
EAC Rip | WavPack (image+.cue+log) - 437 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 174 MB | Covers - 54 MB
Genre: Jazz, Post-Bop, Latin Jazz, Big Band | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Disques Dreyfus (FDM 36593-2)

Que Viva Mingus! is an album dedicated to Mingus' considerable output of Latin-influenced jazz. The selections here include well-known Mingus compositions like "Los Mariachis," "Dizzy Moods," "Ysabel's Table Dance," and "Cumbia and Jazz Fusion," as well as some more obscure titles like "Slippers" and "Moods in Mambo," the album's oldest number, dating from 1949. Among the standout soloists are Randy Brecker on trumpet, John Stubblefield on tenor sax, Steve Slagle on soprano and alto saxes, Ronnie Cuber on baritone sax, and Dave Kikowski on piano. This is exciting, joyous, raucous, and still modern-sounding music, as fresh and challenging as the day it was written. And you can even dance to some of it.

Mingus Big Band - Tonight At Noon... Three Or Four Shades Of Love (2002)

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Mingus Big Band - Tonight At Noon... Three Or Four Shades Of Love (2002)

Mingus Big Band - Tonight At Noon… Three Or Four Shades Of Love (2002)
EAC Rip | WavPack (image+.cue+log) - 421 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 170 MB | Covers - 81 MB
Genre: Jazz, Post-Bop, Big Band | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Disques Dreyfus (DRY-CD-36633)

Tonight at Noon: Three of Four Shades of Love marks the 80th anniversary of Charles Mingus' birth and is the seventh recording in a series that pays tribute to his music. The CD features the talents of the Mingus Big Band, a 14-piece rotating ensemble launched in 1991 by the widow of the composer/arranger/bassist, Sue Mingus. The thematic focus of the CD is love and its ten love songs also mark the debut of the Charles Mingus Orchestra, which is featured on four of the songs. The previously unreleased "Love's Fury" features a stellar arrangement by Syl Johnson as well as the very lyrical compositions Charles Mingus never quite received recognition for. Known primarily for his aggressive bebop basslines, these rarely performed compositions are dramatically and beautifully voiced by soloists - trumpeter Randy Brecker and Craig Handy on "Love Is a Dangerous Thing"…